Display pad for barrettes and the like



Feb. 23 1926.

s. GU'TTERMAN DISPLAY PAD FOR BARRETTES AND THE LIKE Filed Feb. 21

INVENToR wA TTURNEYS.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.'

Patented Feb. 23, i926.

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"r FFICE SOL GUTTERMAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK;v

DSPLAY :PAD FOR BARRETTES AND THE v Application filed February Be itknown that I, SoiJ GUTTERMAN, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of New York city, borough of Brooklyn, in the Stat-e ofv `NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Display Pads forBarrettes and the like, of which the following is a specification. K

The objects of this invention are to provide a pa-d upon which samplebarrettes can be ydisplayed to the best possible advantage and whichwill protect and cushion the barrettes when a number of the pads arelaid upon one another; to hold each barrette properly positioned uponthe pad to display it, and to preventit from turning or slip-l ping outof suoli position; to provide for this purpose a stifi'ened holdingstrip upon the soft cushioning lsurface of a stiffened pad body, and toobtain other advantages and results as may be brought out by thefollowing description:

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which the same referencecharacters indicate the same parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is face View of my improved pad, with a barrette in placethereon, and

Figure 2 is a sectional view on line Q-fQ., Figure l, showing how thestiffened holding strip presses the barrette into the soft cushion layerto prevent it from twisting or turning out of proper display position.

ln the specific embodiment of the invention shown in said drawings, lindicates a barrette display pad of my improved construction, and 2 abarrette displayed thereon.

The body of the pad consists of a backing 3 of textile material whichhas been specially starched to impart stiffness without rigidity, aninterior cushion layer fl; of cotton wadding or the like, and a facing 5of soft and preferably silky texture loose enough to permit the fullcushioning effect of the inner layer 4. The said backing 3, innercushion layer t and facing 5 are connected at their peripheral edges bya suitable binding 6, which is shown as of stitching although `it mightbe of any other well-known kind adapted to hold the backing, facing andintermediate cushion layer together. lt will be understood, however, thasaid backing, facing and cushion layer are preferably connected only attheir edges or marginal portions, so as to leave them free from oneanother at their portions upon which the 2i, 1925. serial No. 10,834.

barrettes rest and thus secure the most` efiective cushioning of saidbarrettes.` The back ing Sis stiff in comparison with the cushion layerd and facing 5, without being in any sense rigid, andl is intended toretain the pad in smooth outspi'ead extended position, which iteffectively does in my improved construction# ,Obviously the pad may beof any vother shape than the plain rectangular V,form shown, if desired,and may be of any required size.

Upon the front ofV the body of the pad thus described is a holding stripA7, which is shown Vextending longitudinally and inedially of the pad,although there is no in-` tention to restrict Vto this particularposi-'- tio-n. lt is sufficient for the holding strip to extend acrossany suitable portion'of the pad body where the backing, facing and innercushion layer are free `from one another as already explained and` thusadapted to support a barrette. The holding strip itself is secured onlyto the facing 5, so

that the described freedom of the facing with respect to the cushionlayer and backing is not impaired, and preferably thisrsecuring is bytransverse lines of stitching .8, 8 which are suitably spaced from eachkother to receive between themselves the pin shaft` S) of the barrette 2and holdthe bar rette against undue movement. The body l0 of thebarrette sinks into4 the soft cushioning body of the pad, as in use itdoes into the hair of a wearer, and is thereby further held againstdisplacement or lmoving out of its proper displaying position.

ltl is an important feature of theholding strip T that it is stiff, inthe sense that the backing l is stiti, and thus said holding stripcooperates with said backing in holding the pad extended or outspreadwith the barrettes proi'zerly spaced and displayed. Preferably thisstifiening of the holdingl strip is accomplished by making it of aninner thickness il of the saine material as the backing 3 and an outerthickness l2 of the sameinaterial as the facing 5, the two thicknesesbeing held together by binding 1S along the opposite longitudinal edgesof the holding strip, but any other suitable construction might( beemployed. Preferably the said binding 13 consists of a coarse obliquestitching, as shown, whereby the margins of the holding strip arethickened `and roughened so that better frictional engagement with thepin shaft of the barrette is secured to hold it against any tendency toslip ont of place.

lihile the invention is described as abarrette display pad, itwillbeunderstoodpthat it can be employed for the display of any othersimilar articles to which it may be adapted, and no restriction of theinvention is intendedV herein except as may be required by the followingclaims When construed in the light of the priorart.

Having thus described the inventiomwhat l claim is: i f

l. A display pad comprising va body consisting of a soft Aflexiblefacing and a relatively stiff textile backing` anda cushion la'j'erbetween said facing` and baclino` and a holding strip secured to saidVfacing upon a portion yof the body Where the facing and liacl-:ing andcushion vlayer are free' from one another transversely of the pathVWhereby the cushioning effect of the cushionlayer upon an articlemounted o-n the pad is independent of the attachment ofthe holdingstrip.

2. A display pad comprising' a body having a soft flexible f cing and acushion layer back of said facing, and aholding kstrip secured to saidfacing upon a portion of-said-bodyvivhere the facing and cushion layervare free from each other transversely of tliepad, whereby the cushioningeffect of the cushion layer upon an article mounted on the padis'independent of the attachnient of the holding strip.

8. A display` pad as claimed in claim 2, in Which the holding strip iscomparatively stiff with respect to the facing and tends t-'- hold itextended.

et. 'display pad as claimed in claim l, inii'liich the holding strip isrelatively stiff with respect to the facing andcooperates with thebacking to hold the' pad extended.

A display pad comprising a body With SOL GUTTER-MAN,

a soft cushion frontend a holding strip i 'on said fronthaving amarginal edge of

